Andrew Blok covered home energy, with a focus on solar, and navigated the changing energy landscape to help people make smart energy decisions. He's a graduate of the Knight Center for Environmental ...
Colorado team develop a new form of silicone that is more transparent than window glass, and a better thermal insulator than ...
A new mesoporous polymer combines optical transparency higher than glass with thermal conductivity lower than air. The material, which is easily made at the square-metre scale and should last decades, ...
Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.
An aerogel material that is more than 99% transparent to light and is an excellent thermal insulator has been developed by Ivan Smalyukh and colleagues at the University of Colorado Boulder in the US.
Pablo Päster is an energy and sustainability management consultant who wrote a weekly advice column for Treehugger from 2009-2012. Dear Pablo: I had a home energy audit done and they recommended ...
Why bother adding a layer of insulation to a brick wall, if you can just build that wall using hollow bricks that are stuffed with insulation? That's the thinking behind self-insulating bricks which ...
If you’re planning to boost your property’s thermal performance as part of a renovation project, improving the thermal efficiency of the outer walls can make a huge difference to what you spend on ...
Beryllium oxide ceramics exhibit excellent insulating properties, with a resistivity at room temperature comparable to that of aluminum nitride (10¹⁵-10¹⁷ Ω·m). The stability of its crystal structure ...
Dear EarthTalk: Do insulating paints actually insulate and save energy? If they do, are they environmentally friendly to use? -- Bob Dibrindisi, Easthampton, MA Paint additives that claim insulating ...
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Highly insulating polymer film that shields satellites to boost flexible electronics’ performance
Researchers have found that they could use highly insulating aluminum-coated polymer film to improve the performance of ...
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